*We are word and idea junkies; we are addicted to semantic systems. *This means that we use words/ideas with an unchallenged confidence that they bear a somewhat accurate correspondence to the actual state of things, Reality. *Within a limited context this may be true. We can record information, instructions, recipes, etc. in words, and another human will be able to use those words to approximate the "real-world" conditions we intended to refer to. This semantic functionality has apparently given our species a large evolutionary advantage. *BUT... for "spirituality", inquiry into Reality, into our true condition, words/ideas are worse than useless. They are potentially our biggest impediment. *This is because we may tend to assume that the objects/actions which words refer to, ACTUALLY EXIST IN THE WAY THE WORDS THAT REFER TO THEM SEEM TO DEFINE THEM. *That is, we may tend to view our experience as being actually made up of the objects and actions that we are verbally using to describe it. *This is a fundamental mistake, due to the fact that EVERY real experience is actually an infinite, constantly changing, non-repeating, indefinable (in any final way), unknown Reality; consisting solely of unknown "energies" existing nowhere else than IN experience, perceived by unknowable, miraculously appearing "consciousness". But our use of words implies that objects and actions may actually exist in the way we refer to them, as knowable objectively existing "things" and "situations". *BUT IS THIS SO? *How can we overcome our verbal bias, and see our experience as it actually IS? . | 
